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MassMutual RomaniaProgram Manager
Aug. 2023MassMutual Romania, Program Manager
- Ensuring successful planning, coordination, and completion of projects by effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams, adherence to established timelines and efficient resource allocation.
- Develop and refine project goals, objectives, and milestones with relevant stakeholders.
- Review and evaluate project proposals to determine their viability, resource requirements, and alignment with organizational strategy.
- Act as the main point of contact for all internal and external stakeholders related to the program.
- Foster open communication and teamwork among project managers, ensuring cohesive cross-functional collaboration.
- Coordinate with other departments to ensure alignment and mutual understanding of program objectives and deliverables.
- Allocate resources, including manpower and tools, ensuring optimal utilization for each project. Identify potential resource constraints and address them proactively.
- Establish and maintain a master timeline for all projects within the program.
- Regularly review project status, ensuring timely delivery and addressing any delays or obstacles in a proactive manner.
- Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure smooth project progression.
- Address any issues or challenges promptly, realigning resources or adjusting timelines as necessary.
- Regularly update organizational leadership and relevant stakeholders on program status, milestones, and any adjustments.
- Engage with stakeholders to gather feedback, address concerns, and adjust strategies as necessary.
MassMutual RomaniaProject Manager
May. 2023 - Jul. 2023Cluj, Romania- As a Project Manager at Barings, I play an instrumental role in driving our company's cloud infrastructure initiatives. I oversee a dedicated team of 14 full-time employees, ensuring optimal allocation of work and fostering a productive and collaborative environment.
- I actively engage in PI (Program Increment) planning, aligning team objectives with strategic company goals and ensuring seamless execution of priority tasks. With a keen focus on timely delivery, I manage the complete project lifecycle, balancing speed, and quality to bring about the successful completion of each project.
- Stakeholder management is another key aspect of my role. I take pride in being the nexus point between various teams, managing expectations, and effectively communicating project status to all parties involved.
QWICProject Manager
Feb. 2020 - May. 2023Amsterdam/Cluj-Napoca- Coordinate internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets, in collaboration with project teams from various functional departments (product, IT, procurement, customer support, etc.).
- Establish and maintain trusted advisor relationships with project stakeholders (internal & external).
- Manage day-to-day execution of project implementations. Assist with the planning, tracking, documentation, and status updates for the project.
- Facilitate requirements gathering and assist with the creation of project deliverables, as needed.
- Ensuring implementation of continuous improvement processes through weekly alignment and documentation of these, using collaborative tools like Confluence or SharePoint.
- Managing issues & risks and ensuring follow-up for the mitigation/action plans thereof.
- Ensuring a well-managed handover of the project, with all supporting documents, as part of the closure activities.
- Responsible for the relationship with third-party providers related to cloud infrastructure and licenses.
- Budget holder for the software team.
- Empowered with improving the quality of software factory in the company.
- Software security good practices.
QWICSenior DevOps Engineer
Nov. 2018 - Feb. 2020Cluj County, Romania- Taking care of IT strategy, costs control and implementation requirements for the office move strategy.
- Migration of QWIC from local Active Directory to Azure AD: I was responsible for all the project, end to end. Also with this project we were able to extend our storage to azure drives for 2 departments (marketing and R&D).
- ERP migration + upgrade: I was responsible for preparing the cloud infrastructure for ERP migration.
- IVR migration to Aircall: I was main responsible with the migration from the old system to Aircall and do the integration with SalesForce. I was also responsible for change management and stakeholders reporting.
- Migration of a 3D modelling solution (SolidWorks) from on-prem to cloud: my responsibility was coordinating three teams for having success with this. At the same time, I was able to guarantee the necessary requirements from a infrastructure perspective (VPN, network bandwidth and hosting).
- Tech Stack: AWS(Route 53, IAM, EC2, EKS, ALB, RDS). Azure(Azure functions, AAD, VMS, SQL SERVER, Enterprise APPs, etc) CI/CD(TeamCity, Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, AzureDevOPS) Project Management(Trello, Jira, Confluence, Monday.com, Atlassian ServiceDesk) Monitoring(DataDog, AWS CloudWatch, Graffana) Docker, Terraform.
myTomorrowsDevOps Engineer
Jan. 2018 - Oct. 2018Amsterdam Area, Netherlands- Working together with Software Engineers to plan and execute requirements for projects teams.
- Working in cloud based network to adapt infrastructure to development team needs.
- Automation of main features required on projects regards infrastructure, tools, and prerequisites.
- Optimize the cloud infrastructure by scripting.
- Administration of hardware infrastructure and support for end-users.
- User management/Security.
SDL plcDevOps Engineer
May. 2017 - Dec. 2017Cluj Napoca- automated the deployments of microservices for a cloud project for both staging and production environments.
- helping the development team to update the used tools (like Rabbit).
- working on a new project with Messosphere, HAProxy to increase the application availability.
- collaborating with architects, developers, testers, everybody needed to make things happen.
- Infrastructure: on-premises.
- Key technologies:
- EC2 ( manage instances, security groups, start/stop scripts): installing tools, user access, AMIs, Security Groups, Elastic Ips
- S3: create buckets, use as a source for CloudFront, etc.
- ElasticBeanstalk: deploy a web nodejs application
- IAM: user and rights management
- Route53
- Billing
Wolters Kluwer - Financial Services SolutionsDevOps Engineer
Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2017Cluj NapocaAs part of one of the biggest companies in the field of regulatory reporting and financial risk
management, I am working on developing and updating the current infrastructure used by the
development teams, creating an efficient and high-performance development, test, acceptance and
production environments.
- Working closely with the architects in finding the best solutions for the development projects.
- Creating automation scripts for configuring virtual machines with Puppet.
- Provide new VMs in Azure.
- Configuration, Maintenance and Update of different tools used in development projects: SonarQube, NodeJs, Java, Git, TeamCity, Crucible, Nexus. Integration with company LDAP domain. Helping the development teams to configure the tools to their needs.
- TeamCity build configuration and administration. Creating team city configuration for different types of builds in the CI of the projects (project builds, integration tests, code analysis, deployment)
- Git configuration. Creation and management of the git repositories used by different projects.
- Installation, configuration, and maintenance of Nexus OSS. Working with maven repositories, npm repositories and raw repositories.
- Configuring linux (CentOS) machines. Integrate linux VMs with the ActiveDirectory domain.
Wolters Kluwer - Financial Services SolutionsJava/UI
Sep. 2014 - Apr. 2016Cluj NapocaAs part of one of the multinational Java development teams, I was involved both in the planning and development phases of a new project in the field of regulatory reporting.
- analyzing different technologies and developing several proof of concepts for choosing the most suitable ones for the new project. The tools analyzed include: ExtJs and AngularJs for the UI development, Spring, JEE, Pentaho Kettle, Grid Gain.
- participating in the SCRUM meetings.
- developing different features, both on the back-end and front-end side.
- writing unit tests and integration tests.
- configuring TeamCity builds for different parts of the project lifecycle.
EvozonApplication Developer
Dec. 2013 - Aug. 2014Cluj NapocaWorking in a project in the travel domain I was involved in both Java/UI development and server administration.
Key technologies: ◦ web development: Velocity, Turbine, HTML, CSS, jQuery
◦ server administration: linux distribution, puppet, vagrant
PITECH+PLUSJunior Java Developer
Sep. 2012 - Nov. 2013Cluj NapocaDeveloping web applications used by customs for registering the illegal traffic of merchandise between countries.
The technology stack used includes: AndroMDA,Spring,Hibernate,EXTJs
AROBS Transilvania SoftwareIntern
Aug. 2011 - Sep. 2011Cluj Napoca-participating in different training sessions for learning Java programming and technologies like: GWT,SmartGWT, JDBC. -developing a web application for crowd funding.
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